Picture Chicago: 16 of this week's photos you can't miss
David Arquette exits after performing as Bozo the Clown during Bozo’s Circus Pop-up Experience at Madame Zuzu’s in Highland Park, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024.
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Mike Merritt places a hand on Philip Merritt while at their home in Oak Lawn, Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2024. While Philip was incarcerated, his brother Mike realized his brother had dementia. Mike worked with the Illinois Prison Project to get him released a year ago and Philip has been living with Mike ever since.
Tommy Kendall holds a picture of his 18-year-old brother, Jesse Kendall, next to Jess’s 1975 Chevy C10 near the family’s home in Elgin, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024. Jesse was fatally shot Sunday night as he and his friends were going to the Lil Durk concert at the United Center.
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Onlookers on the Howard Red Line Station’s platform watch as Chicago police work the scene where 3 people were shot, 1 fatally in the 1600 block of W. Howard St. in the Rogers Park Neighborhood, Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024.
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Jimmy Soto, who was exonerated after 42 years in prison, walk out of Lincoln Hall after a news conference at Northwestern University’s Pritzker School of Law in Streeterville, where he and his lawyers from Loevy and + Loevy announced that they filed a civil lawsuit against multiple Chicago Police Department employees, Cook County Assistant State’s attorneys, the City of Chicago and Cook County for Soto’s wrongful conviction, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024.
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Parade performers twirl LED lassos in the 10th Annual Arts in the Dark Halloween parade on North State Street in the Loop, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024.
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Flanked by attorneys, Illinois’ former House Speaker Michael Madigan walks into the Dirksen Federal Courthouse, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024.
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People tour Astor Club, a private dinner club at 24 E. Goethe St., during Open House Chicago, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024.
Mayor Brandon Johnson presides over a special City Council meeting at City Hall, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024.
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Erika Harold, executive director of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism, stands in her office in the Loop, Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024. The organization released a study that estimates 25% of Illinois lawyers have been bullied by another attorney or a judge in the past year. | Pat Nabong/Sun-Times
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“Wayne’s World” and “Austin Powers” creator and star Mike Myers smiles during an onstage conversation at the Logan Center for the Arts, where he later accepted a career achievement award from the Chicago International Film Festival, Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024.
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A printer runs as guests mill around the new office of Chicago Printworks, which is now housed in a newly rehabilitated building that is shared with Studio inHaus in Garfield Park, before a ribbon cutting ceremony, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024. | Pat Nabong/Sun-Times
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Lizzy Freier stands for a photo at her home, on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2024. Lizzy Freier was diagnosed with breast cancer earlier this year at 36 years old.